HBO now $18?

[Kraven]

No way i'd pay 18$ a month for HBO. However, 18$ won't get in the way of my GF watching True Blood...... the irony.

Cheers, K

[minkbarn]

When you consider that there's no way Dish would offer HBO at half price unless they're making a profit at that level, full price of $18 is ridiculous.

HBO is welcome to see what the market will bear. If enough people are willing to pay that much it makes sense businesswise. I won't be one of them.

I love Game of Thrones, but won't overpay for that or any other program.

[king3pj]

You make a good point. For $18/month, you get nine channels, plus on demand, plus HBO GO. Not a bad deal, really, if you like what they offer.

In addition to what Yespage said, the 9 channels don't mean as much if you have a DVR. If you don't have a DVR 9 options are much better than one. The themed channels like HBO Zone and HBO Family do offer some variety but basically every movie on any of the HBO channels could have been recorded from the main channel at some point. I do like having all the extra channels for flexibility and the fact that they show movies that may not have been on the main channel for a long time. I don't consider them 9 different channels that are worth $18 though.

[The Fat Man]

You make a good point. For $18/month, you get nine channels, plus on demand, plus HBO GO. Not a bad deal, really, if you like what they offer.

You really get 7 channels with repeats of HBO and HBO2 (West Coast). Then out of those 7 one is a 90% Spanish language repeat of the main HBO channel.

Which brings me back to a point I brought up a year and a half ago, and wound up starting a wildfire. But HBO Latino should be either a la carte or in the Spanish packages. Really, I who don't speak Spanish and have no desire to, shouldn't be required to pay the somewhere between 40 extra cents to the dollar they charge for it. Charge me $17 for the other six, or give me an option for a Cinemax channel as compensation. 5 Star Max would be perfect (no late night programming).

I'll be called a racist once again, but I must say HBO Latino is one reason I don't pay for HBO. I shouldn't have to pay more for a service in a language I don't speak. Put it in a package for those who speak that language.

[mike1977]

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HBO (+ its Cinemax channels) is the only real true major premium channel network left, with no on screen displays.

I do not like nor support paying for premium channels and still seeing snipes, distracting channel logo bugs, and end credit interruptions. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and with me...it's no on screen displays during the programming and a guarantee you can listen to the end credit music to a movie...NO EXCEPTIONS...PERIOD. Because if you allow it, you'll have a channel bug cover a subtitle translation when an actor is speaking a foreign language...which I have witnessed on Starz...and it'll just get worse, with it happening more and more.

Now if it's $18+ and HBO decided to degrade the premium experience with the on screen crap everyone else is doing...then yeah...it would definitely be too much.

[The Fat Man]

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HBO (+ its Cinemax channels) is the only real true major premium channel network left, with no on screen displays.

I do not like nor support paying for premium channels and still seeing snipes, distracting channel logo bugs, and end credit interruptions. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and with me...it's no on screen displays during the programming and a guarantee you can listen to the end credit music to a movie...NO EXCEPTIONS...PERIOD. Because if you allow it, you'll have a channel bug cover a subtitle translation when an actor is speaking a foreign language...which I have witnessed on Starz...and it'll just get worse, with it happening more and more.

Now if it's $18+ and HBO decided to degrade the premium experience with the on screen crap everyone else is doing...then yeah...it would definitely be too much.

I have to agree on that. EPIX used to be the worst with it's lengthy bug to visit the website to see more content.